The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route

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1. Story
2. A reconstituted service runs for the first time from Paris across Switzerland through the Simplon Tunnel to Milan, and from there to Venice, Trieste and Belgrade; through running to Istanbul follows in 1920. The alignment changed for political reasons, not engineering ones — the post-war settlement made the old Munich–Vienna corridor unavailable — and the tunnel that had been bored for Swiss-Italian traffic became the spine of the most famous train in Europe.
3. Knowledge
4. Orient Express
5. Paris
6. The Balkans
7. Simplon Tunnel
8. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
9. Connections
10. Orient Express
11. Simplon Tunnel
12. Paris
13. The Balkans
14. Istanbul
15. Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
16. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
17. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
18. Paris
19. The Balkans
20. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
21. Simplon Tunnel
22. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
23. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
24. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
25. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
26. The name Orient Express leaves the European timetable
27. Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
28. Orient Express
29. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
30. Orient Express
31. Gare de l'Est, Paris
32. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
33. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
34. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
35. Orient Express
36. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
37. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
38. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
39. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
40. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
41. Evidence
42. Supports the 19 May 1977 last Paris–Istanbul departure from Gare de Lyon at 23:56, the 11 April 1919 first Simplon Orient Express, and the final Strasbourg–Vienna EuroNight of 12 December 2009 with the name leaving the timetable on 13 December. V55 verification basis: a specialist rather than institutional source; its substance was carried in attributed search results and the site itself is refused by this environment's egress proxy.